Brush Box: obviously 'shaped' years ago but then left alone.
Newcastle city councillors will receive a briefing at 5:30pm, Tuesday 3rd April, on the Laman Street development. See you at Town Hall in the Council chamber on the second floor.
As a friend of mine said, the new design will need to be a pretty special plan because what Council removed by destroying the avenue of fig trees was divine. (more…)
The Herald 8/8/2002
How scary is this? (more…)
days to the next Council elections.
Tonight’s Council meeting will discuss the *Review* of the Laman Street process. (more…)
I just sent a submission to Council’s draft community engagement charter:
bottom drawer here we come. (more…)
The General Manager spent thousands of ratepayer dollars today to put a full-page ad on page 24 of the Herald today to tell the community that everything’s OK – Council is ‘very comfortable’ with how stupid it looks its four – oh, no: not four – reports on Laman Street, and to tell residents ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy: protest respectfully; we vandals are Just Doing Our Job’. (more…)
I am ashamed to say that once again my Council has treated an eminent expert shabbily.
As I said at the Fig Forum, there’s nothing to be gained and quite a bit to lose for arboricultural and risk experts to help Newcastle people try to preserve the Laman St trees.
I’m extremely grateful that such knowledgeable and respected experts as Mike Ellison have given us their time and advice.
I should not have been surprised that within the blink of an eye an internal memo critiquing Mr Ellison’s work appeared. (more…)
The Herald reported today that three councillors have lodged yet another rescission motion. This is reputed to be because the recent vote on independent expert assessment is alleged to be unlawful. (more…)
I suppose being called to an Art Gallery and library to evacuate people in case of falling trees would have to be a cushy job for workers whose job regularly puts them in harm’s way…
Here’s hoping no one is ever at risk while emergency crews’ time is being wasted in Laman Street.
The spin goes on about these poor trees: there was a fantastic ad in the Herald a couple of weeks ago from a group of architects, asking for an independent risk assessment of the Laman Street trees. (more…)
Tents have been in Civic Park for over a week and I expect will stay there until the next Council discussion about Laman Street on Sept 13th. Go down and visit, have a chat, take a photo, sign the petition, get the latest dirt news on what’s happening – make a memory you can tell your children about how you helped save those magnificent trees. (more…)
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